By Chrissy Iley
Finding a good mascara is always a challenge for me. I am constantly trying to find a perfect one. I find one I like that makes my thin sparse lashes look lustrous for a minute and then it dries up or I lose it. I’m always drawn to the subtleties of a new lash maker.
I’d heard about Eyeko, which is an award winning brand for your eyes only, started by husband and wife team Max and Nina Leykind. They have a lovely range of brow products, eyeliners, shadow pens and mascaras. They offer a bespoke mascara service where you can have formulas and bristles tailored to suit your particular lashes. Eyeko are suddenly about to get even bigger. You feel it. You can always tell when you see a brand featured in the British Airways magazine it’s made it, although it made it a long time ago after it got stocked in Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and M&S.
Celebrities love it – Jennifer Lawrence and Salma Hayek are fans. So I tried out a couple of liners. The Skinny Liquid Eyeliner (£12) and the Fat Liquid Eyeliner (£12). The fat one’s not for making fat lines, just some people find it easier to swipe with something stubby, as in the thickness of the brush.
I’m a fan of the skinny liquid eyeliner. I’m not good at applying things liquid because my hand to eye co ordination doesn’t have the precision and I’m used to pencils that smudge. The thing I like about these is how shiny they are, like a velvet glossed line and it’s fairly easy to get precision.
The skinny one isn’t supposed to smudge but if you catch it before it dries it does, so you get precision and smudge.
The Fat Brush Mascara (£15) is also extremely shiny but a fat brush is not necessarily equivalent to fat eyelashes. If you have got thick eyelashes already, the fat brush mascara is going to make them super glossy.
The thinner-eyelashed of us will love the Rock Out and Lash Out Mascara (£20). It comes in its signature tube like a silvery toothpaste so you can squeeze it to make sure you can get its absolute worth. It’s got the lovely glossy texture and a brush that’s like a guitar although I thought it was like a poodle pom with pom poms or Shaun the Sheep— anyway its shape is revolutionary – thin and fat so it’s perfect for curling lashes and perfect for separating lashes to make them look fullsome.
The Rock Out mascara is inspired by Debbie Harry. Hence a guitar brush. Nonetheless its contours work to grip and coat every eyelash. It’s a shiny jet black. The brush helps lift and enhance. It doesn’t clump but you can apply an extra coat so you have a base coat and a full coat.
At £20 it’s one of Eyeko’s more expensive products but definitely worth it. They even do a Sport Waterproof Mascara (£18) for that mascara that’s barely there. The ‘no make up make up’ that stays put through sweat so you can apply make up before gym guilt-free. I’ve always been a more is more person so my favourite is the one that is inspired by Debbie Harry, the Rock Out and Lash Out. It’s definitely a new hero product for me.
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